Aquino Might Visit After U.s. Elections

MANILA — Philippine President Corazon Aquino has accepted an invitation from President Reagan to visit the United States, a spokesman said Friday.

The announcement was confirmed in Los Angeles, where Reagan was pausing at the start of his 12-day trip to the Far East.

White House officials said Reagan had extended the invitation to Aquino during a telephone conversation Thursday.

Aquino`s spokesman, Rene Saguisag, said that during their three-minute conversation, which was their first direct contact since Aquino took office two months ago, Reagan invited her to visit Washington sometime after the U.S. congressional elections in November, and ``she said she`d be delighted.``

But the spokesman said such a visit could not be a top priority, given Aquino`s heavy schedule in reorganizing her government. ``What she has really done is accepted in principle,`` he said. ``But at this time it is very low in her priorities because of the tremendous problems she faces here.``

Vice President Salvador Laurel said some tension had surrounded Reagan`s telephone call to Aquino.

Laurel said that before Reagan placed the call, the Philippine government had advised the U.S. that it would be offended if Reagan telephoned former President Ferdinand Marcos first.

Marcos is in Honolulu, and Reagan plans to phone him when he stops there. He is due in Honolulu Saturday afternoon and will spend the night there.

A senior White House official said some consideration had been given to a personal meeting between Reagan and Marcos, but it was ruled out for security reasons.

Reagan left Washington Friday on a 22,300-mile journey culminating in the economic summit of the seven biggest industrialized democracies. That meeting is May 2-4 in Tokyo.

With a schedule designed to give the 75-year-old President time to adjust to the 13-hour time difference from Washington, Reagan will take a week to reach Tokyo. He is stopping along the way in Los Angeles, Honolulu, Guam and the Indonesian island of Bali. He returns to the United States via Alaska on May 7.

On Bali he will meet with Laurel and leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.